STMA names Stars & Stripes winner

Josh Lenz won the Sports Turf Managers Association’s (STMA) fifth annual “Stars and Stripes” contest.

Lenz is the Assistant Manager of Athletic Grounds for Arizona State University. With his “Sun Devils Salute to Service” field design at Sun Devil Stadium, he has won a complimentary pass to the 2022 STMA Annual Conference in Savannah, Ga.

With the Stars and Stripes contest not being held last year due to the pandemic, STMA was excited to bring it back this year. Entries received over 2,200 votes, with Lenz’s design gaining more than 800 votes.

Lenz graduated from Iowa State with his Master of Science in Horticulture and spent two years working full-time at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He joined the team at Arizona State in 2018 and is responsible for overseeing the operations in and around Sun Devil Stadium.